"Do not treat doctors like killers" … 12,000 doctors protest in the city

The Korea Medical Association (KPA) is organizing a third national Physician Rehabilitation Competition on November 11 at the Seoul Junggu Gate in Seoul. (Photo: Shin Jung-seop)

[이데일리 신중섭 기자] "If you ask your doctors for criminal liability, you do not have good judgment,

The Korean Medical Association (KMA) organized a third national controversy in front of the Doosan Palace in Seoul on November 11 at 2pm. She said, "I punished three doctors for failing to properly diagnose patients. The doctors responsible are treated as thieves and killers. "

Doctors are on the street for the third time after the first and second national gathering in December and May of this year. "The organizers estimate that 12,000 people gathered at the rally.

Doctors from all over the country shouted slogans, flags and pickets: "The doctors treated illegally and the health of the population are broken" and "The judiciary is responsible for the defensive treatments".

The meeting was held in a hospital in Gyeonggi Province in 2013, when the A Army (8) died of a hemothorax due to a diaphragmatic hernia and the court sentenced three doctors to treat He opened in dimension.

"The court's decision, which ignores the specificity of medical care, is now a criminal offense in which the entire diagnosis of the doctor himself can be immediately limited." The self-esteem of doctors, It is getting lost. "

Lee Cheol-ho, president of the Association of Korean Doctors, said, "I pray for the illness of a child who has died from diaphragmatic hernia," he said. "Physicians can diagnose a diaphragmatic hernia by seeing the child who has a stomach ache.

"The rare case is a difficult law to diagnose and treat for any doctor," he added, "If you ask your doctor to give you an unexpected or bad result, do not do it."

Lee Duck-chul, president of the Korean Association of Family Medicine, said, "The ER is like a battlefield where unexpected situations and unusual diseases are diagnosed and treated," said Lee. . "Criminal liability for the consequences of an unintentional medical procedure," I do not understand at all the specificity of medical care. "

In addition, the KMA established the "Special Law on Medical Litigation" with the aim of creating a safe medical environment, concluded a comprehensive settlement agreement of 9 · 28, approved medical treatment options for physicians, improved the number of patients and improved screening standards, and used 5 types of medical devices And this health insurance is not applicable.

"I agree with the need for a general strike of national doctors and I decide to decide when and how to implement it," he said. "Even if the doctors do their best, they will have to go to jail if their results are not good, it needs to be reformed."

They will also read "Message to President Moon Jae-in" in front of the Blue House.

Last month, a Suwon District Court judge in Suwon for supporting Seongnam Province sent a letter of recommendation to the 42-year-old woman charged with manslaughter.) Were convicted each to one year in prison, but three of them were released on bail on the 9th.

At the time, the court said: "The abnormal symptoms on X-rays were obvious rather than ambiguous, suggesting that if the pleural fluid is as high as the one shown in the photo, it suffers from pain." 39, a serious illness. " "I can recognize the causal link between work-related negligence and the death of the accused."